Reference Manual for Humanitarian Health Professionals
Missioncraft in Disaster Relief® Series
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Beschreibung
The Reference Manual for Humanitarian Health Professionals: Missioncraft in Disaster Relief is a hands-on resource written for disaster relief practitioners, educators, and researchers working in clinical medicine, public health, or disaster management.
“Missioncraft” is the art and science of preparing and conducting successful field operations. This manual provides state-of-the-art technical reference information developed from inter-disciplinary, inter-agency, and international best practices. It also provides tools and templates for health professionals addressing key disaster issues including security stabilization, rapid epidemiological assessment, environmental health, disease surveillance, epidemic preparedness, communicable disease control, standardized case management, referral practices, laboratory diagnostics, and medical logistics. Reference information and associated tools are presented in a concise, comprehensive, and structured format to help humanitarian health professionals plan, undertake, and manage high-impact interventions.
Sections are arranged in chronological order of essential activities in disaster relief operations:
· Pre-departure preparation
· Field briefing
· Field assessment
· Field recommendations
· Field reporting
· Field project and staff management
· Medical coordination
· Re-entry
The Reference Manual for Humanitarian Health Professionals is an authoritative resource for disaster health professionals in leadership roles in governmental, non-governmental, Red Cross, or UN agencies; health professionals anticipating future disaster deployment as agency medical coordinator, team leader, or health cluster coordinator; field-based staff responsible for health outcomes of disaster-affected populations; disaster relief specialists involved in strategic planning, project design and development, project management, monitoring and evaluation, and accountability to affected populations; educators and trainees in disaster health best practices; and, humanitarian researchers.
To the authors' knowledge, this is the first book that addresses the spectrum of technical information required by humanitarian health professionals in disaster
Benefits readers with unique features and content:
- Guidance Notes – insights to best use of the chapters and selected documents under real-time field conditions
- Core Documents – concise, comprehensive data gathering templates that are self-contained, portable, and clipboard ready for field-use
- Tools – documents for additional data capture in specific areas that inform and strengthen the analysis of Core Documents
- Technical Annexes – repositories of core technical information for a range of allied health domains located at the end of the Manual
Provides guidance notes for optimizing use of the manual by diverse health professionals Contains concise, comprehensive tools and templates for data gathering Includes technical annexes with repositories of core technical information required in multiple domains of humanitarian health
Autor*in
David A. Bradt
Themen in »Reference Manual for Humanitarian Health Professionals«
disaster relief public health preparedness and response disaster competencies disaster management disaster epidemiology natural and technological disasters and emergencies field operations humanitarian aid work outbreak investigation medical coordination civil-military (civ-mil) cooperation conflict-affected populations missioncraft rapid epidemiological assessment refugees and displaced persons